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Australians delivered a surprise election result on Saturday; not because of who won but by the scale of the victory.
It marks a strong recovery for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his center-left Labor party, which had been slumping in the polls earlier this year, and follows a similar swing away from conservatives in Canada in the early months of the second US presidency of Donald Trump.
As the final seats are allocated and the center-right Liberal Party surveys the damage – including the loss of its leader, Peter Dutton, from parliament – here are five takeaways.
Albanese’s defeat of Dutton mirrors the outcome of…